PinballX started 'without focus' after cold start (not always)

[Mike_da_Spike]

Hey all,

I think I have this since I updated my cabinet to Windows 21h1 last week.
During cold reboot, my cabinet is starting, and PinballX is started without focus (not during all cold boots, but i this week happened too much that I noticed it)
I see that the statistics plugin  is loaded , but rest is minimized.

Clicking on the PBX icon in the taskbar (or alt-tab) will show the playfield and backglass videos;

 

Also it looks like that the "Hide taskbar" function is not hiding the taskbar (I thought it should disappear) 
I also noticed that the log file doesn't show  "Machine just booted so waiting 6 seconds"

Checking my eventlog (cabinet was really powered off), the event shows that my cabinet is online for almost 24 hour (and the event is generated between events from yesterday):

Anyone got an idea and am I the only one ?

PinballX.ini log.txt

[Tom Speirs]

I just updated on the cab. Sorry to say, but I'm not seeing any of that here.

Tom.

[Tom Speirs]

Having thought about it my best guess at this is the pc is coming out of standby or hibernation?

[Mike_da_Spike]

Technicly I give it a shutdown, via start button or via PinballX, but looks like windows is hybernating it. (Thats what I suspect from what I see from the event).

Need to dig in more for whats happening. 

Maybe had to do with the breakup of Bill andMelainda (just kidding)

Just wondering if I'm the only one ..

 

[Tom Speirs]

Maybe its to help Bill's electricity bill. He' got to cut back a bit. Cash flow problems apparently.

Either that or a forced EU patch.

[scutters]

5 hours ago, Mike_da_Spike said:

Just wondering if I'm the only one ..

No problems with PinballX startup focus / cold start here.

Just you Mike!

 

[Mike_da_Spike]

This morning it happen again.
Cold start works (I closed it via windows shutdown yesterday).
I shutdown the CAB via shutdown in PinballX.
After that I always power off the cab (completely)

Turned the cab on. 
Windows is launching, logging in and I see the splash screen of PinballX.
It flashes and I see the same screen as I had in my screenshot.
desktop with PBX loaded
According to the log there was a start of OS :
 

05:51:44.97  27-5-2021:  Machine just booted so waiting 6 seconds for screens and startup programs. Boot Time = 27-5-2021 05:51:09

The logging stops as well.
I checked eventlogs etc and doesn't find anything.
if I click on PinballX icon, it looks like it is building/creating the screens and in the log (see (log2.txt), the entry for creating directX backglass is created (So had a gap of 10 minutes):
 

06:02:34.20  27-5-2021:  Created DirectX BackGlass Window

Still something strange is going on during this process

EDIT : I see that NVidia has an updated driver, I will try to install that one and check what's happen after that

log.txt log2.txt

[scutters]

Weird.

If the driver update doesn't help then as a test try disabling the stats plugin, maybe that's doing something with your real dmd that locks it and causes PinballX to hang. It shouldn't, but i don't have a real dmd so can't test it and it is something obviously different in out setups.

[Mike_da_Spike]

I tested it all ready with all the plugins turned off, but same result.

And, I trust the creator of yhe stats plugin . Must still be Bill that doesnt like me.

I also have faith in NVidia. Turned on the cab a couple of times today and all looks fine.

Fingers crossed

[Mike_da_Spike]

Too bad, had the same issue again after installing the drivers ..

Same result in the log. waiting for the backglass window

[Draco1962]

If you have PinballX set to start on boot, maybe try setting it to a delayed start if that is an option?

[Mike_da_Spike]

8 hours ago, Draco1962 said:

If you have PinballX set to start on boot, maybe try setting it to a delayed start if that is an option?

To be honest, I just used ToggleStartWithWindows.exe from the PinballX directory and really not sure how PinbalLX is starting.
I don't see a service, not a Scheduled task or a startup/run registry key
I knew Tom is a magician and I never figured that one out  
So not able to put a delay in it.

btw this morning al was starting correctly. But I'm pretty sure that was a lucky shot.
EDIT:

Checking it further, it was in sleep mode again. PinballX didn't found a cold start  (although it was all working fine)
Last time I used the cab, it was for checking this issue yesterday,  I turned off the cab from PinballX.

I found a setting in power management for hybrid sleep.
It will not fix the issue, but will shutdown the PC completely instead of sleep or hibernate.
I changed it now to off. (and my power management is set to high performance) 

[scutters]

Just to confirm Mike, the hanging/minimised PinballX problem is only on a cold start up (and can occur with and without the PinballX log showing the 'machine just booted..' message?)

If you close PinballX and run it again manually there is no problem?

[Mike_da_Spike]

1 hour ago, scutters said:

Just to confirm Mike, the hanging/minimised PinballX problem is only on a cold start up (and can occur with and without the PinballX log showing the 'machine just booted..' message?)

If you close PinballX and run it again manually there is no problem?

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It's indeed after a cold start (or restart) and dudnt see it when relaunching Pbx. 

I've seen it also with and without the "machine reboot" in the log.

But all in the log waiting for the directx backglass message in the log. And logging continues after I click on the PBX icon again